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July 11, 2014
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Jul'14
Microsoft backs cloud rival Google’s open-source Kubernetes project
Microsoft has joined rival Google to support the Kubernetes open-source project on its Azure platform
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July 11, 2014
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Jul'14
Satya Nadella to flatten Microsoft and reverse device strategy
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has sent out a memo to all 100,000 employees, in preparation for what is likely to be a major reorganisation
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July 10, 2014
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Jul'14
Open-E aims Jupiter DSS software defined storage at enterprise SAN
Open-E adds ZFS functions and scalability to take its DSS storage to the enterprise at a claimed 25% of the cost of storage array products
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July 10, 2014
10
Jul'14
Wearable tech needs to be more fashionable, says Beecham
A recent paper by firm Beecham Research has found that technology companies do not have the right approach to wearable technology
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July 10, 2014
10
Jul'14
IBM pumps $3bn in chip tech research to power future cloud needs
IBM will invest $3bn (£1.75bn) over the next five years in the research and development of chip technology to meet cloud needs
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July 10, 2014
10
Jul'14
PC sales bounce back as XP drives hardware refresh
Desktop and laptop upgrades, driven by the migration away from Windows XP, has bolstered PC sales in Europe
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July 09, 2014
09
Jul'14
UK leads in mobile adoption
UK businesses are getting a return on their mobile investments as they invest in technologies to underpin their digital strategies
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July 08, 2014
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EMC XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon get new CPUs and data services
EMC boosts XtremIO, VMAX and Isilon with Ivy Bridge CPUs and advanced data services including flash array snapshots
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
CIO interview: Bill Peters, head of IT, Caterham Formula 1 Group
Bill Peters, head of IT at Caterham, talks about the challenges of delivering IT to scientists, engineers and F1 drivers
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July 08, 2014
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Jul'14
Samsung profits fall as tablet market shifts
Samsung’s electronics business has seen weak earnings in the second quarter of 2014, dropping by around 25% from last year
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July 08, 2014
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Jul'14
Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity
The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
Government invites tenders for Emergency Services Network
Incumbent Airwave Solutions among several businesses invited to tender on the four lots of the new Emergency Services Network
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July 08, 2014
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Jul'14
Top hardware firms join forces on IoT standards
Top hardware firms join forces to establish secure and reliable connectivity standards for the internet of things
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July 07, 2014
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Jul'14
Tablet sales to slow in 2014, says Gartner
Gartner findings show that sales of tablets are set to slow in 2014 as uptake moves into the late adopters phase in mature markets
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July 07, 2014
07
Jul'14
SME IT staff buckling as IT consumerisation sends workloads soaring
IT professionals in the SME sector are buckling as trends such as the consumerisation of IT and shadow IT push workloads to unmanageable levels
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July 07, 2014
07
Jul'14
Flat mobile batteries banned from US-bound flights
UK Department for Transport has announced that mobile devices with flat batteries will not be permitted on flights to the US amid new terrorism fears
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July 03, 2014
03
Jul'14
Android is top choice as mobile business operating system
Android is the most popular operating system in business according to a new study from Frost & Sullivan
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July 03, 2014
03
Jul'14
Microsoft and Google propose 25Gbps and 50Gbps Ethernet networks for cloud datacentres
Technology giants including Microsoft and Google form a consortium to fire up datacentre networks’ performance for cloud-scale infrastructure.
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July 03, 2014
03
Jul'14
Tour de France organiser deploys satellite phone system for UK stages
Tour de France organiser ASO selects Globalstar satellite phones to keep support and emergency crews connected during UK leg of tour
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July 03, 2014
03
Jul'14
Survey: Storage budgets shrink while capacity balloons
451 Research survey finds storage budgets shrink while data volumes increase, as flash use becomes commonplace
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July 03, 2014
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Jul'14
Physical location of data will become irrelevant by 2020, says Gartner
The physical location of data will be irrelevant by 2020, replaced by a combination of location criteria such as legal, political and logical concerns
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July 02, 2014
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Jul'14
Case Study: Marston's Telecoms taps Blue Coat Wi-Fi manager
Marston’s Telecoms, the in-house ISP of pub and brewery chain Marston’s, rolls out Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances to take control of its onsite Wi-Fi networks and cut bandwidth costs
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July 02, 2014
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Jul'14
UK government recognises datacentre sector as a key economic contributor
UK datacentre industry has been officially recognised as a legitimate industry and a significant contributor to the economy, growth and jobs
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July 01, 2014
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Jul'14
Arctic University warms classrooms with waste datacentre heat
Tromso-based university uses liquid-cooled HPC systems to keep students warm by recycling excess datacentre heat, saving €1.7m
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July 01, 2014
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Connected cars standard by end of 2018
Juniper Research study finds integrated in-vehicle connectivity and apps will become standard in new cars by the end of 2018
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July 01, 2014
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Jul'14
Gartner: Now is a good time to buy IT
Pricing pressure has led to buyers getting a better deal from IT suppliers, according to Gartner analysts
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June 30, 2014
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European Commission inches closer to standardising cloud SLA guidelines
The European Commission has received a cloud SLA guidelines from service providers and industry bodies
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June 30, 2014
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IBM opens SoftLayer datacentre in London for local cloud customers
IBM opens a datacentre in Chessington, specifically for its SoftLayer cloud customers
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June 30, 2014
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Hybrid cloud powers business strategy for Notonthehighstreet.com
Notonthehighstreet.com deploys a hybrid cloud and DevOps strategy to grow, innovate and respond to business needs quickly
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June 27, 2014
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Jun'14
Facebook moves Instagram photos out of Amazon and into own datacentre
Facebook has moved all the user photos on Instagram out of Amazon’s cloud platform into its own internal datacentre and cut costs
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June 27, 2014
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Jun'14
Half of network equipment ageing or obsolete, survey finds
Dimension Data finds 51% of network devices near the end of their life as buyers take cautious approach to hardware refreshes
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June 27, 2014
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Jun'14
Skyera hits UK market with skyHawk all-flash arrays
All-flash array startup Skyera inks UK distribution deal that brings 1U MLC-based arrays to market
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June 27, 2014
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Jun'14
Intel's new lab in Swindon to fuel IoT projects
Intel has opened an IoT Ignition Lab in Swindon to allow UK enterprises to develop projects in retail and more
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June 24, 2014
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Jun'14
Intel unveils its most powerful chip, Xeon Phi, for supercomputers and HPC
At ISC 2014, Intel unveiled its next-gen chip, Xeon Phi, with an array of integrated hardware capabilities for HPC and supercomputers
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June 24, 2014
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Jun'14
Dell adds SC4020 as it edges towards iSCSI-FC unification
Dell ditches separate Compellent and EqualLogic branding with the debut of the Dell Storage SC4020 midrange SAN
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June 24, 2014
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Jun'14
Violin Memory puts advanced features in Concerto 7000 flash array
Formerly troubled Violin Memory's Concerto 7000 series puts replication, snapshots, CDP and WAN optimisation in an all-flash array
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June 19, 2014
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BBC sets up expert group of cloud controllers
The BBC has set up a central group of IT, security and user communities to manage its purchase and use of cloud computing
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June 19, 2014
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Jun'14
SanDisk to buy PCIe flash pioneer Fusion-io for $1.1bn
SanDisk to buy PCIe server-side flash pioneer Fusion-io for $1.1bn as part of push into the datacentre flash market
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June 18, 2014
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Jun'14
Symbian ransom shows risk in internet of things
The news that Nokia was held to ransom over a digital certificate should raise alarm bells in organisations with aspirations to digitise their business
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June 18, 2014
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Jun'14
Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud
eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself
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June 18, 2014
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Jun'14
Azzurri pushes enterprise contact centres into the cloud
Networking provider launches hosted cloud contact centre offering as part of its ICON services package
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June 17, 2014
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Jun'14
NetApp adds high-end FAS8080EX with all-flash array capability
NetApp adds flagship FAS8080EX with all-flash array options that can scale to 5.8PB
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June 12, 2014
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Jun'14
CIO Interview: Betfair's Michael Bischoff on making IT ready for Fifa World Cup
Michael Bischoff, the CIO of bookmaker Betfair, talks about the challenges in readying the IT for Fifa World Cup betting
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June 11, 2014
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Jun'14
Nimble Storage launches flagship CS700 hybrid flash storage
Nimble Storage tops off its CS hybrid flash storage products with high-performance CS700 range
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June 11, 2014
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Datacentre spending shifts to Europe as buyers focus on low-cost servers
Server manufacturers made 20% less in sales in the first quarter of 2014, compared with the fourth quarter of 2013
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June 10, 2014
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Jun'14
HP launches new products for software-defined datacentres
HP has launched networking, HPC, storage and converged infrastructure products
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June 10, 2014
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Jun'14
Manufacturer boosts bandwidth with Silver Peak WAN optimisation
Symphony Group gets 50% bandwidth boost and cuts RPO from hours to seconds with Silver Peak VRX-4 WAN optimisation
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June 10, 2014
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Jun'14
Facebook shares lessons learnt from deploying Raid in HDFS clusters
Facebook deployed Raid in large HDFS clusters to increase capacity and reduce data replication, but it faced many challenges
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June 09, 2014
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Jun'14
Smart meter IT costs set to escalate as rollout ramps up
Cost of IT is set to skyrocket as the UK’s smart meter rollout ramps up due to suppliers buying in IT consultants
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June 09, 2014
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Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead
Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart
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June 06, 2014
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Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report
Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report
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June 06, 2014
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Jun'14
Green Mountain builds tier III datacentre in Norway to lure financial services firms
Green Mountain has built a tier III, hydro-powered facility in Norway to attract enterprise customers, including financial services firms
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June 06, 2014
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Jun'14
Fusion-io Atomic Series PCIe cards double server flash capacity
Server-side flash pioneer Fusion-io has launched a new range of PCIe server flash cards, the Atomic Series, which double their capacity by using the latest-generation NAND flash chips
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June 05, 2014
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Jun'14
G-Cloud is lacklustre and needs transparency, says industry body CIF
Industry body blames G-Cloud's lack of transparency for poor uptake of cloud by public sector organisations
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June 04, 2014
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Jun'14
Unsupported Windows XP still widely used
Two months since Windows XP support officially ended 25% of web users are still on the unsupported Microsoft operating system
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June 04, 2014
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Jun'14
VMware CTO hits back at AWS tool to manage virtual machines
VMware CTO Chris Wolf warns users against being fooled by tools disguised as hybrid cloud management as AWS launches administration portal
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June 04, 2014
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Jun'14
Busy Bees nursery virtualises desktops and servers to improve users' IT experience
UK nursery chain Busy Bees has made its IT scalable, mobile-friendly and easy to use by deploying Citrix products
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June 04, 2014
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IBM escapes SEC action on its cloud revenue reporting
US regulatory watchdog SEC will not take action against IBM following an investigation into how it reports cloud revenue
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June 03, 2014
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High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS
The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?
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June 03, 2014
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Jun'14
Met Office swaps Oracle for PostgreSQL
UK weather service the Met Office has started swapping Oracle for Postgre SQL in a strategy to deploy more open source technology
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June 03, 2014
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Jun'14
Tegile dives into all-flash array market with T3800
Hybrid flash maker Tegile enters all-flash market with T3800, and adds T3400 hybrid flash array with more flash on board
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May 30, 2014
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May'14
Software-defined everything will change datacentre design, function and price
Datacentres of the future will not be populated with products that perform individual functions as software-defined everything makes hardware irrelevant
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May 29, 2014
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BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad
British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready
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May 29, 2014
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HolSystems shuns flash storage for X-IO HDD arrays
US cloud provider HolSystems has deployed 60TB of X-IO spinning disk rather than flash storage to boost performance in the remote delivery of virtual servers
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May 29, 2014
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Universities debut £8.1m centre to develop laser and photonics data storage technology
Universities and industry partners launch centre to train researchers in developing laser technology and silicon photonics for big data storage
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May 28, 2014
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Cloud and datacentre warnings for CIOs
As cloud computing enters mainstream, datacentre and cloud experts warn CIOs about IT trends that are too big to ignore
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May 28, 2014
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May'14
Case study: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust deploys e-observation technology
Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is deploying mobile observation technologies to monitor patient health
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May 28, 2014
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May'14
Huawei signs datacentre services MoU with BT
BT could become a major supplier of datacentre services to Chinese network giant Huawei after signing memorandum of understanding
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May 28, 2014
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May'14
Google AI improves datacentre energy efficiency
Artificial intelligence helps Google improve datacentre energy efficiency
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May 27, 2014
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Digital Single Market for cloud in Europe is crucial, says EC
Europe is moving towards a Digital Single Market for cloud to promote the uptake of cloud computing and reduce complexities
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May 27, 2014
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May'14
Apple calls for patent retrial to get bigger payout from Samsung
Apple has asked for a retrial in the hopes of increasing a $119.6m damages payout from rival Samsung
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May 23, 2014
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HP job cuts head towards the 50,000 mark as company tackles cost
A further 16000 jobs are set to go as HP continues to slash its workforce through a restructuring initiative which began in 2012
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May 23, 2014
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May'14
Microsoft overturns FBI request for enterprise user's data in Seattle court
Microsoft successfully challenges an FBI National Security Letter requesting data about one of the company's enterprise customers
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May 22, 2014
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Storage, business growth and virtualisation driving datacentre expansion
The top three drivers for datacentre capacity expansion in Europe are storage growth, business growth and virtualisation
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May 21, 2014
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May'14
Tablet banking to quickly overtake mobile banking
The number of people in Europe banking on tablets will grow at twice the rate of those on mobile phones, with security concerns not a major driver
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May 21, 2014
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May'14
Swale Heating emulates head office in national expansion
SE England based Swale Heating emulated its head office IT set-up in the Midlands when it expanded through a major contract
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May 21, 2014
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May'14
Microsoft targets MacBook Air audience with Surface Pro 3
Microsoft has unveiled its latest Surface Pro, targeting MacBook Air users and people who want a full-function tablet
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May 20, 2014
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May'14
HP debuts Orchestrated Datacentre to automate IT operations and delivery
HP launches its Orchestrated Datacentre service suite to help the IT department deploy the full stack and automate IT delivery and management
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May 20, 2014
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May'14
Cisco launches workspace collaboration devices and cloud service
Cisco has launched a range of collaboration devices, including the 24in touchscreen DX80 device, which features a built-in Android computer
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May 19, 2014
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May'14
SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure
From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure
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May 16, 2014
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Digital rights group lists best companies for data protection
Digital rights group examines technology giants including Amazon, Google, Yahoo, At&T, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Dropbox
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May 16, 2014
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May'14
CIO interview: Adecco UK sets global model
The UK operation of global recruitment company Adecco has created an IT infrastructure to make bit more agile in the face of increasing competition from small firms
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May 16, 2014
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May'14
Pure Storage adds entry-level and high-end FA 400 flash arrays
All-flash array maker Pure Storage adds entry-level and high-end FA 400 series arrays and upgrades Purity operating environment
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May 15, 2014
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May'14
More user control and freedom from lock-in will make cloud successful: Werner Vogels
Giving users more control and freedom from supplier lock-in will ensure cloud’s success in Europe, says Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels
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May 15, 2014
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Microsoft funds datacentre and cloud energy efficiency research projects
Microsoft has awarded $160,000 to four university projects focusing on cloud and datacentre energy efficiency
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May 15, 2014
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May'14
Oxford University gets 330TB of Panasas clustered NAS/HPC storage
Oxford University gets Panasas ActivStor 14 clustered NAS as HPC storage for high-performance processing
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May 14, 2014
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Object storage: An architecture for the petabyte era?
Object storage offers massively scalablility for unstructured data.. But can it break out of the niche it is in?
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May 14, 2014
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‘Real cloud’ is much more than cheap infrastructure, says Rackspace as cloud price war continues
Rackspace CTO warns cloud buyers of the dangers of buying cheap, raw infrastructure for their IT strategies as cloud price war intensifies
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May 13, 2014
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Quarter of Europe’s small businesses interested in mobile point of sale
Over a quarter of small businesses are interested in introducing mobile devices as a point of sale technology within six months as attitudes towards mobile point of sale (mPOS) change in Europe
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May 12, 2014
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Microsoft fleshes out cross-platform mobile strategy
Microsoft users should be productive on all operating systems, including iOS, Android and Windows, according to vice-president Brad Anderson
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May 12, 2014
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May'14
The digital CIO: How to be a digital innovator
CIOs need to think about their IT budgets in a different way to free up funds for innovation
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May 12, 2014
12
May'14
IDC survey puts IBM, Cisco and HP ahead of AWS, Google and Azure for IaaS
IBM, Cisco and HP have been rated as the top three infrastructure as a service providers according to a study by analyst IDC.
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May 09, 2014
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Facebook debuts ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design in Swedish facility
Facebook is expanding its Luleå datacentre in Sweden by deploying Rapid Deployment Data Centre (RDDC) design developed in collaboration with Emerson Power Network
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May 08, 2014
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May'14
Lawyers get Unitrends backup appliance for virtual server backup
Notts law firm Rothera Dowson moves from Symantec plus tape to Unitrends disk-based backup appliance for virtual server backup and cuts recovery time from days to minutes
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May 08, 2014
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May'14
Industry needs to do more to benefit from utility incentives for datacentres
Potential energy efficiencies from utility incentives cannot be realised without more efforts from datacentre operators and utility firms
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May 08, 2014
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May'14
Colt increases colocation datacentre capacity in London and Hamburg
The carrier-neutral datacentre and colocation facility provider, is increasing its datacentres in London and Hamburg by 2MW to meet Europe's datacentre demand
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May 07, 2014
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CIOs fear compliance and regulation over IT failure to tackle big data
As many as 87% of CIOs fear that failing to address their untapped intelligence will lead to issues with compliance and regulation, a research revealed
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May 07, 2014
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May'14
HP pumps in $1bn in open source and hybrid cloud services
HP will invest $1bn over the next two years on cloud-related products including an investment in OpenStack and is launching HP Helion too
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May 06, 2014
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May'14
Cloud is one of the 'most disruptive forces' in business in past 20 years: KPMG
A KPMG research report on the future of investment banking has concluded that cloud is one of the “most disruptive forces in business in the past 20 years”
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May 06, 2014
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Our datacentres are energy efficient and green too, says AWS
Amazon Web Services says it runs its facilities with energy efficiency in mind despite Greenpeace criticisms